“You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and you do not understand these things?
This doctrine was not new but clearly taught in the Old Testament. That a man whose business is teaching should be a stranger to so plain and important a doctrine shows what happens when worldly-minded men seek office for ease or reputation. No man understands Scripture fully unless he is humble and gives his heart to God.
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Christ speaks of what He knows with certainty, as the omniscient God in whom all treasures of wisdom dwell. His testimony ought to carry the full weight of a faithful, seeing witness. Yet the Jews received not His witness, an aggravation of their sin and unbelief.
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A Pharisee and ruler of the sanhedrim comes to Christ, proof that grace subdues even the greatest opposition. He sought private counsel rather than public hearing, a pattern we should follow: go to faithful ministers about the deep matters of your soul, not content with hearing sermons alone.
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Commenting on John 3:1-21